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fearsome
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective fearsome has 1 sense
- fearsome(s = adj.all) awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible - causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
CIDE DICTIONARY
fearsome, a.
- Frightful; causing fear. Sir W. Scott [1913 Webster]
- Easily frightened; timid; timorous. B. Taylor [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fearsome, adj. appalling or frightening, esp. in appearance.
Derivative
fearsomely adv. fearsomeness n.
THESAURUS
fearsome
alarming, appalling, awe-inspiring, awesome, awing, bashful, chilling, cowardly, daunting, deterrent, deterring, diffident, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, disquieting, dreadful, fear-inspiring, fearful, fearing, formidable, frightening, frightful, goosy, in fear, intimidating, jumpy, menacing, mousy, nervous, overawing, rabbity, scaring, scary, shaky, shivery, shrinking, shy, skittery, skittish, startling, startlish, terrible, terrifying, timid, timorous, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy
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